9 h. ago Magners maker C&C says challenging conditions set to ‘persist’

The company said beer and cider sales at pubs and other hospitality venues have been resilient.

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9 h. ago Apple joins Microsoft and Nvidia in elite $4tn valuation club

iPhone maker’s share price is up 28% over the past six months

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12 h. ago In Pictures: Prunella Scales was an actress, campaigner and documentary maker

Although her most famous role was Sybil Fawlty, she charmed many with travelogues detailing her canal journeys with actor and husband Timothy West.

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30 h. ago Chinese car maker targets Brits with huge discount on newly launched model

Chinese brands have gone from almost nothing a few years ago to now accounting for more than one in 10 new cars sold in the UK

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36 h. ago Nissan pools carbon emissions with electric vehicle maker BYD to avoid EU penalties

Japanese carmaker’s deal with Chinese rival part of EU-sanctioned offsetting scheme to help head off £13bn in finesThe Japanese carmaker Nissan is to team up with its Chinese electric vehicle rival BYD in an attempt to offset their carbon emissions and avoid EU penalties for 2025, it has confirmed.It is part of a wider offsetting scheme the EU has sanctioned for the car industry that could help manufacturers of combustion engine cars head off an estimated £13bn in fines. Continue reading...

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38 h. ago Canuto’s Transformation review – did a man really turn into a jaguar in Brazil’s remote forest?

Ariel Kuaray Ortega’s complex docufiction sifts through the mysterious story of a man who, during the military tyranny, is said to have become a big catHere is a complex, mysterious docufictional mediation which unfolds at an unhurried walking pace, co-authored by the Indigenous Brazilian film-maker Ariel Kuaray Ortega, a member of the Mbyá-Guarani movie collective; it’s evidently been a personal project, many years in the making, and a prizewinner at the 2023 IDFA festival in Amsterdam. Ortega returns to his home town in a remote forested region on the border with Argentina, on a mission to investigate a local legend that a man called Canuto, from his grandfather’s generation, was transformed into a jaguar.The film is at once a documentary on this subject and a record of the fictional re-enactment that Ortega is staging using local people – and, in a way, it is a film about itself. He speaks to his aged grandfather and to villagers about their customs and beliefs and their fraught ...

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3 d. ago British tourist, 56, is killed in fall from Canary Islands hotel balcony 'after railing broke'

A British tourist has died in the Canary Islands after plunging nearly 20ft when the railing of a hotel balcony reportedly gave way.

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4 d. ago Very bold new ad released by maker of cherry picker in Louvre heist with tagline: ‘When things need to go quickly’

A GERMAN company raised eyebrows after launching a tongue-in-cheek ad campaign for their cherry picker which was used in the Louvre heist. Furniture lift manufacturer Böcker posted a picture of the truck and wrote a shocking slogan in German that translates to "When things need to go quickly". Photos of a freight lift went viral...

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6 d. ago OpenAI prioritised user engagement over suicide prevention, lawsuit claims

Family of teen who took his own life after ChatGPT use alleges chatbot maker intentionally weakened protections

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6 d. ago Will Hotel Chocolat’s velvetiser be on sale for Black Friday 2025?

The sale could be your chance to bag a discount on the viral hot chocolate maker

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7 d. ago Cardiff's new Christmas shop is like being in the middle of a festive film set

It’s basically a Hallmark festive film set maker’s dream

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7 d. ago OpenAI launches new ChatGPT Atlas browser to compete with Google

This strategic move could position the ChatGPT maker as a primary gateway for internet traffic

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7 d. ago #MeToo campus thriller After the Hunt is provocation for provocation’s sake | Adrian Horton

Julia Roberts emerges unscathed but Luca Guadagnino’s tiring and muddled attempt to comment on trending topics doesn’t inspire the debates it so clearly wantsContains mild spoilersIn theory, After the Hunt, director Luca Guadagnino’s would-be psychological thriller tracing the fallout of a sexual-assault accusation at a cosseted Ivy League campus, hinges on a single early scene: Alma, the aloof and alluring philosophy professor made icily incandescent by Julia Roberts, arrives home to find Maggie, her doctoral student protege played by ascendant star Ayo Edebiri, waiting for her in the rain.Crouched together in an apartment stairwell – Guadagnino, a slick and stylish film-maker, frames them facing each other as mirrored negatives in preppy neutrals, a generational yin-yang – Maggie tells Alma in clipped, digressive bits that something bad happened with Hank (Andrew Garfield), a fellow tenure-track professor who serves as Alma’s professional rival, friend and maybe lover. The two had...

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7 d. ago If you like piña coladas: how to make slushies at home without a machine

While slushie machines are going viral on social media, a blender, or elbow grease, can achieve similar resultsGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailIt promises icy, refreshing drinks, and for a cool $179, this slushie maker is yours – if you can find one.Australian TikTok users have become fixated on a Kmart slushie machine, apparently a budget version of the equally viral Ninja slushie machine (RRP A$499), with users posting videos and reviews of their frosty, fruity extrusions. One Australian video has racked up 2.7m views, and the appliance has sold out online. But with Kmart supply chains under scrutiny and the knowledge that culinary trends and the very specific appliances needed to make them are passing fads, not everyone wants to – or has to – buy a machine to make slushies this summer.Sign up for the fun stuff with our rundown of must-reads, pop culture and tips for the weekend, every Saturday morning Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Cathedral City cheese maker investigates 'disturbing' footage from dairy farms

The company has suspended use of milk from at least one farm over videos which 'offend the values of our customers, consumers and employees'. WARNING: DISTRESSING FOOTAGE

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7 d. ago ‘I said goodbye to Heath Ledger at this urinal’: a stroll round Terry Gilliam’s pivotal places

The studio where he crashed the Life of Brian spaceship, the stage where he put on a Faust that caused fights, the pub where he last spoke to Heath Ledger the ex-Python takes a hilarious and evocative stroll down memory laneDown an alley in Covent Garden, on a building that was once a banana warehouse, there is a blue plaque. “Monty Python, Film Maker, Lived Here, 1976-1987,” reads the inscription. It’s easy to miss: the plaque is not at eye level as they normally are, but up on the first floor, almost as if the blue plaque committee lost confidence in their uncharacteristic joke. Or perhaps John Cleese put it up.Terry Gilliam arrives. I like his jacket. It looks like it’s been stitched together from bits of blankets. “Me too,” he says. “I got it 30 years ago in a secondhand store in New York.” We’re going to wander around London, revisiting places that have played significant parts in his career, as he approaches his 85th birthday. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Cards Against Humanity and Elon Musk's SpaceX reach settlement over alleged trespassing in Texas

Elon Musk's SpaceX has settled a lawsuit filed by the maker of the popular party game Cards Against Humanity over accusations that the space technology company damaged land the card company owns in Texas

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8 d. ago Volvo's gone from sensible to cool: We review the new Volvo XC90 and EX30 Cross Country

Volvo is pushing to be the upmarket car maker of choice, embodying countryside cool. Do the XC90 SUV and EX30 Cross Country SUVs hit that mark? Freda Lewis-Stempel finds out.

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8 d. ago Oatly blames ‘doom and gloom’ climate talk for US sales slump

Oat milk maker’s CEO says negative talk around climate change and greenwashing are putting consumers off sustainability

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1 week ago Keeper review – a sparkling ecological fantasia of pure imagination

This whimsical action-adventure game sees you stomping through nature as a life-giving lighthouse – and it only gets weirder from thereThe world of Keeper looms from the screen like a dream coloured by psilocybin. Here is a gnarled landmass of bubblegum blues, powder pinks and strange, luminous beasts, where evolution seems to occur at light speed. This world’s considerable beauty is amplified by how it is rendered: like a 1980s fantasy movie filled with charmingly handmade practical effects. Keeper is the latest title from Double Fine, maker of trippy platformer Psychonauts 2, Kickstarter sensation Broken Age and many other idiosyncratic titles. It is an action-adventure resplendent with the lumps and bumps of life’s imperfections, as if its 3D modellers had sculpted the setting from papier-mache rather than using computer software.Even stranger than the setting is the protagonist: you play as a lighthouse, coming to appreciate this gleaming ecological fantasia by shining its beaco...

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